MG Gouf Custom WIP 02

Wow, its been about 7 months since my first wip on this guy! Finally giving him some much needed attention in modding form. My goal in this build will be to improve articulation and custom the already custom design lol then add some weathering/battle damage. I mostly worked on this at night so some of the shots are bad.

After measuring and cutting to length, I bent it to mimic the original. To keep the curve in place, I applied some heat for about a second.

Waist and Hip mod:

Made a ball joint for the waist, looks rough but its effective!

This was my third attempt, the first two were different and broke after a short while under the pressure. I went to my old Tallgeese for scrap parts since he was already falling apart ^^;

Lot of work done on the hip portion.

Added part to connect to waist. Cut hip part into two for added rotation and flexibility. Joint used here was from Exia repair cape, and its a bit weak.

With combined mods above:

Allows for nice torso twisting ^^

Legs:

Only finished one leg so far…

Cut the thigh part in two for added rotation, kinda like with HGUC RX78. I will be modding the armor also to take advantage of this function.

Rotate for more posing possibilities and kung-fu squats!

Armor and Weapons progress:

Attempting to slim down the side chest armors, but may scratch build a different one with a design i have in mind. Also the Guyer type elbow blade in progress😀

Mod to add function to the gattling gun. Will attempt to make it open and close and attach/detach to the shield like in the anime.

This stuff is new territory for me, and its extremely difficult to cut parts with only hobby knife and scribber XD Im still enjoying it so far! I could use a few new supplies for these mods but I wont be getting new tools any time soon… ^^;

I have a lot planned for this Gouf Custom, hope it all turns out well. Modding is fun, give it a try😛

man, Nendogelion is super postponed😦 been way too busy to put on a bigger production like that. now im not sure when i can actually start it T_T but ill try to at least make some preview clips so you guys get an idea of what i have planned.